Douluo Continent: Starting from Tianshui Academy

Chapter 20 The Academic Prodigy with Extraordinary Skills

The courses at Tianshui College are relatively relaxed, with only four classes a day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Besides lecturing in the classroom, the academy's teachers spend their time guiding students in combat spirit training, teaching them to sing and dance, and arranging for them to cultivate their martial spirit in a simulated environment.

The Soul Masters of Tianshui Academy are all water-attribute. The simulated environment is a huge lake with some buildings on the lake, like a water park.

When the trainees were cultivating in the simulated environment, some cultivated in pavilions on the lake, while others entered the lake to cultivate. When they were interested, they would practice various soul skills directly in the lake.

A group of beautiful women playing in the water resembled fairies emerging from the water, creating a very alluring scene. This is also why Tianshui Academy forbids male Soul Masters from entering. Imagine, how could a male Soul Master concentrate on cultivation in such a simulated environment?

The learning life of a Soul Master in another world is much easier than when he was studying in his previous life. There are no homework assignments or brain-burning exams. For Ye Liangchen, who had suffered from heavy study tasks in the past, it was too easy.

On his very first day of school, Ye Liangchen fell in love with this kind of learning life. The incredibly relaxed courses were simply too great. However, Ye Liangchen also understood that he couldn't live too comfortably in such a cruel other world.

The next morning, in Ye Liangchen's classroom, Su Lin was explaining the knowledge of soul beasts to the kids.

"Dear students, as we all know, the levels of spirit beasts are divided into ten-year, one-hundred-year, one-thousand-year, ten-thousand-year, and one-hundred-thousand-year levels. Do you know what the colors of these spirit rings are?"

As soon as Su Lin raised this question, many students rushed to answer.

"Teacher! A ten-year spirit ring is white, a hundred-year spirit ring is yellow, a thousand-year spirit ring is purple, a ten-thousand-year spirit ring is black, and a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring is red."

Su Lin smiled and said, "Very good! It seems everyone is doing well. If you learn this knowledge well, it will be easier for you to find suitable soul beasts when you acquire soul rings in the future."

"Teacher Su Lin! What color would a spirit beast's spirit ring be if it's over 100,000 years old?"

"What about soul beasts that are a million years old?"

At this moment, Ye Liangchen suddenly said something that stunned everyone else in the classroom, including Su Lin.

"Hmm! Little Chen! No one has ever seen a soul beast of this level, and we don't even know if it exists?"

Su Lin was both amused and exasperated when she saw the little guy ask such an outrageous question. She felt that the little guy was just being argumentative.

"A million-year-old soul beast?"

"The Encyclopedia of Soul Beasts only records 100,000-year-old soul beasts. What Little Chen is talking about probably doesn't exist."

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu, along with a group of other girls, also expressed their opinions, believing that soul beasts older than 100,000 years do not exist.

"Teacher Su Lin! I think that since there are soul beasts that are 100,000 years old, there must also be ones that are 200,000 years old, or even 1 million years old."

Ye Liangchen said calmly, regardless of whether people believed him or not, he would just pretend to be curious and say it, with the aim of breaking people's perceptions.

"Little Chen! Why do you think there are soul beasts that are over 100,000 years old?" Shui Bing'er asked curiously.

"Hehe! I guessed."

Ye Liangchen scratched his head and smiled sheepishly. He couldn't tell everyone that there were still a bunch of ferocious beasts in Douluo Continent, otherwise they would be scared silly.

"Da da..."

Su Lin strode gracefully toward Ye Liangchen with her long, slender legs and mysterious steps. The sound of her high heels clicking on the floor was crisp and melodious.

"Xiao Chen! The teacher feels that you are deliberately causing trouble."

When Su Lin came to Ye Liangchen, she deliberately put on a stern face and stared intently at the little guy's innocent face, pretending to be very serious.

"Teacher Su Lin! I was just making a deduction based on what's recorded in the Encyclopedia of Soul Beasts, please don't mind it."

Ye Liangchen shrugged, "I've already said it, so whether you believe me or not is up to you."

"Okay! I know you're smart and can apply what you've learned to other situations."

"However, if there really are soul beasts that are over 100,000 years old, they are beyond our reach. We have never even seen a soul beast that is over 100,000 years old, let alone tried to understand it."

Su Lin recalled what she had learned about gods from Di Tian and Bi Ji in the Star Dou Forest some time ago. So, it was really possible that soul beasts over 100,000 years old existed.

"Teacher Su Lin! Is what Xiao Chen said true?" Shui Bing'er and her group of girls crowded around and asked curiously.

"Teacher, I don't know either. This is just Xiaochen's guess."

Su Lin spread her hands, looking like she was asking a question. If Ye Liangchen hadn't brought it up, she wouldn't have even considered that possibility.

"Clang, clang..."

Just then, the bell rang, signaling the end of the morning classes and lunchtime.

"Class dismissed, students! That concludes this morning's lessons."

"Xiao Chen! Come with me."

Su Lin announced the end of get out of class to the students, then grabbed Ye Liangchen's small hand and walked towards the classroom door.

"Hey! Teacher Su Lin! We still need to take Xiao Chen to eat! Where are you taking him?" Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er shouted from behind when they saw their little brother being taken away by Su Lin.

"Bing'er, Yue'er, Xiao Chen's lunch has been arranged by the teacher today."

Su Lin turned around and smiled at the two little girls, thinking to herself, "How could I let these little ones go hungry? Then I'd be a useless teacher."

"Ms. Su Lin! You're not going to punish me, are you?"

Ye Liangchen followed Su Lin, thinking to himself that he had deliberately asked an exaggerated question in class before, and this woman thought he was being argumentative. Would she really punish him?

Lan Xiaodie had previously instructed Su Lin that if Ye Liangchen misbehaved in class, she could directly discipline him. Although Lan Xiaodie doted on the little guy, she was very strict when it came to his education.

Su Lin found it very amusing to see Ye Liangchen's bewildered and slightly frightened expression.

"Don't worry! Although the dean gave instructions, how could I, your teacher, bear to punish you?"

Su Lin reached out and rubbed the little guy's cheek, then pulled him along as they continued walking towards her residence.

Before long, the two arrived in front of a luxurious building, which was the residence of the college's teachers. Each teacher had a 100-square-meter house, a three-bedroom, two-living-room mansion.

Good afternoon, teachers.

Upon arriving at the location, Ye Liangchen saw other teachers and quickly greeted them, a necessary quality for an outstanding student.

"Xiao Chen! Are you settling in well at school?"

"Let's have lunch with the teacher!"

The teachers who didn't eat in the cafeteria all went back to their own residences to cook. When they saw Ye Liangchen return with Su Lin, they all came over enthusiastically and surrounded the little guy, asking him all sorts of questions.

Ye Liangchen was the only male Soul Master in the entire academy, and he was also an adorable little boy, which made him a rare species, and everyone liked him very much.

"Dear teachers! Xiaochen is having lunch with me today. Please help yourselves!"

Su Lin smiled charmingly, then pulled the little one into her house.

Seeing Su Lin's protective attitude, the female teachers all revealed gossipy smiles.

"This woman couldn't win over Xiao Chen's father back then, so could she be raising the little guy as her son now?"

"That's quite possible. Love doesn't disappear, it just moves on, hahaha..."

"Don't talk nonsense. If the dean hears you, you'll be in big trouble!"

Upon entering Su Lin's house, Ye Liangchen was immediately struck by its beauty. The furniture was arranged in a very poetic and comfortable manner, and the walls were covered with various beautiful landscape paintings, as well as several portraits of Su Lin herself, which were very sexy and charming.

"Ms. Su Lin! Your room is so beautiful!"

Ye Liangchen noticed another cabinet with over a dozen bottles of fine wine and some expensive tea, and thought to himself that this woman really knew how to enjoy life.

"Your teacher earns 1000 gold soul coins a month, so I'm considered a wealthy person and naturally I should enjoy life to the fullest."

Su Lin smiled and took a bag from the drawer, handing it to Ye Liangchen.

"Xiao Chen! This is the school uniform that the academy made for you. Please keep it safe."

"You play here for a bit, the teacher will go cook soon, and there will be something delicious to eat in a little while."

After giving a few instructions, Su Lin went into the kitchen, put on an apron, and began cooking.

"Thank you, teacher."

Ye Liangchen took the bag, opened it, and saw four sets of clothes inside. The blue and white colors looked very comfortable. The fabric was of high quality, and the clothes were well-designed with a high degree of artistry. The clothes were about three or four stories high.

Half an hour later, Su Lin had prepared the meal and invited Ye Liangchen to come and eat.

"Xiao Chen! How is it? Does the school uniform look good?"

"Beautiful! No wonder Aunt Lan said that the school can earn millions of gold soul coins every year just from the clothing business."

"Of course, those clothes were almost all designed by graduates of our Tianshui College. They're all beautiful women with very high aesthetic standards..."

The two ate and chatted, creating a very warm atmosphere.

……

Time passed slowly. Three months later, Lan Xiaodie referred to the first part of the Hunyuan Technique as a new meditation method. She then selected a small number of students with good aptitude to practice it and required these students to swear an oath with their martial souls not to reveal any information.

Shui Lanxin also plans to recruit these girls who are cultivating the first part of the Hunyuan Technique into the Tianshui Sect in the future, making them the core members of the sect.

As for the exquisite martial art of the Five Elements Divine Fist, it was broken down into five different fist techniques, which were taught to all students to improve their physical fitness. To outsiders, it was simply described as a single martial art.

Many of the senior teachers in the academy are students of the former dean, Shui Lingfeng, and are all core members. Everyone can practice all the techniques. As for the Ten Thousand Plum Blossoms Welcoming the Wind and the Flying Immortal Sword Technique from Beyond the Heavens, those are Ye Liangchen's exclusive sword techniques, which Lan Xiaodie did not contribute.

Lan Xiaodie could only make small-scale reforms to the academy. Before Tianshui Academy had absolute strength, she dared not pass on her cultivation techniques.

Ye Liangchen felt that even if Lan Xiaodie and the others only used the Five Elements Divine Fist and the first part of the Hunyuan Technique to teach, given time, Tianshui Academy would surely shock the world.

In these three months, Ye Liangchen has mastered all the knowledge learned in the beginner, intermediate and advanced classes, which has greatly impressed all the teachers and students of the academy.

In reality, the knowledge taught in class was nothing more than some Soul Master cultivation knowledge and the human geography of the two great empires. As a transmigrator, Ye Liangchen already knew all of this. Besides, there wasn't much to learn about Douluo Continent.

But the teachers at the academy thought he was just exceptionally talented, with a photographic memory that allowed him to remember everything he read in textbooks and even apply it to other situations.

"Aunt Lan! I've learned all that knowledge, so I don't need to go to class anymore, right?"

After lunch that day, Ye Liangchen went to Lan Xiaodie's office and asked not to attend class. He figured that attending class was a waste of time anyway, and it would be much more enjoyable to go back to Jingxian Manor to cultivate his divine skills.

At this moment, Shui Lingfeng, Lan Xiaoling, Mu Qingxue, Su Lin, An Qi, Li Suyan and others were also present. Seeing the little guy's smug look, they all suggested that they test him.

"Then we'll test you. If you can answer all the questions, we'll grant your request."

Lan Xiaodie, Shui Lingfeng and the others were very pleased. This little guy had learned all the knowledge that the school was going to teach in just three months. He was a super academic genius. This is what you call a true genius!

"I'm ready, just ask away!" Ye Liangchen thought to himself: Ask away, you all don't even know as much as I do!

"What are the major sects in the Soul Master world?" Su Lin asked first.

"The Spirit Hall is the largest Spirit Master force, followed by the Slaughter City and Seagod Island, and then the Upper Three Sects and the Lower Four Sects..."

Ye Liangchen slowly named these Soul Master forces. The records of the Slaughter City and Seagod Island were also in the files of Tianshui Academy, but they were not open to the public. Ye Liangchen had also read the files of Tianshui Academy.

Seeing that the little guy knew so much about the power dynamics on the continent, Lan Xiaodie asked again, "What should a Soul Master be careful about when absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring?"

"Ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts can generally develop intelligence. When a soul master absorbs a ten-thousand-year-old soul ring, it will cause a soul shock, which will impact the soul master's soul. Under normal circumstances, only when a soul master reaches level 50 and their physical fitness and soul are strong enough can they withstand the soul shock brought by the ten-thousand-year-old soul ring; otherwise, they can easily become an idiot."

"Hmm! Not bad! What is the strongest support-type martial soul on the continent?" The women were very satisfied with the little guy's answer, so they started asking questions again.

Without a second thought, Ye Liangchen declared, "My Goddess of Life Martial Soul is the strongest support-type Martial Soul."

"Oh! Xiao Chen! Why do you say that?" Everyone was stunned to hear Ye Liangchen say that his Goddess of Life Martial Soul was the strongest support-type Martial Soul.

"Everyone says that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is the number one support-type martial soul, but the highest level a soul master who possesses the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda can cultivate to is 79. I think it's inferior to the Nine Star Begonia. My Goddess of Life martial soul has both support and attack abilities, which is definitely higher than the level of those martial souls on the continent."

"Pfft... Hehe...! Okay! You've defeated us all. From now on, you can arrange your time freely, whether you go to class or not is up to you."

"Thank you, Grandma Dean! Thank you, Aunt Lan! Thank you, teachers!"

Lan Xiaodie, Su Lin, and others asked many questions, which Ye Liangchen was able to answer. In the end, he even said that his martial spirit was the strongest on the continent, which made everyone laugh.

In fact, Ye Liangchen was right. The Goddess of Life Martial Soul is a God-King level Martial Soul. Its ninth soul skill, Divine Light of Life, can probably even revive the dead. It is indeed the strongest, but Lan Xiaodie and the others don't know that.

After leaving Lan Xiaodie's office, Ye Liangchen was in a great mood and ran back to Jingxian Villa. He had spent three whole months becoming a super student so that he could quietly cultivate various techniques. It had been so difficult.

When Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er saw the little guy running happily back to the manor, they immediately chased after him.

"Xiao Chen! Did Mom and the others agree to let you skip class?"

"That's right! Sisters, I won't have to go to the classroom anymore!"

"Xiao Chen! You're amazing! You've learned so much in just three months. We still have to stay in school to learn all sorts of things."

"Hehe! I'm a genius!"

"Little Chen is the best! We have classes this afternoon, so we'll head back to school now."

Goodbye, my two older sisters.

Ye Liangchen bid farewell to Shui Bing'er and her sister, then ran back to Jingxian Manor.

However, seeing the excited expressions on the two girls' faces, Ye Liangchen guessed that they would definitely skip class soon.

(End of this chapter)